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RHSA-2022:6998: Red Hat Security Advisory: thunderbird security update

An update for thunderbird is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.This content is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). If you distribute this content, or a modified version of it, you must provide attribution to Red Hat Inc. and provide a link to the original.

Related CVEs:

  • CVE-2022-40674: expat: a use-after-free in the doContent function in xmlparse.c
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Issued:

2022-10-18

Updated:

2022-10-18

RHSA-2022:6998 - Security Advisory

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Synopsis

Important: thunderbird security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Important

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Topic

An update for thunderbird is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

Mozilla Thunderbird is a standalone mail and newsgroup client.

This update upgrades Thunderbird to version 102.3.0.

Security Fix(es):

  • expat: a use-after-free in the doContent function in xmlparse.c (CVE-2022-40674)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

All running instances of Thunderbird must be restarted for the update to take effect.

Affected Products

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 7 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 7 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 7 ppc64le

Fixes

  • BZ - 2130769 - CVE-2022-40674 expat: a use-after-free in the doContent function in xmlparse.c

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7

SRPM

thunderbird-102.3.0-4.el7_9.src.rpm

SHA-256: e83ab04013b26e38b519da1e755d68c5736a2ef0a1629e0a57a0b9ee61d91808

x86_64

thunderbird-102.3.0-4.el7_9.x86_64.rpm

SHA-256: c9b77cb39dcc78f7fb73824ab4d553ba5b3910f0bc6baa4f4f53d331656d5ab0

thunderbird-debuginfo-102.3.0-4.el7_9.x86_64.rpm

SHA-256: 49a6290192a2bef10894e4e27f8bc37d5558d53f7831b09fb95c56e39861cb52

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 7

SRPM

thunderbird-102.3.0-4.el7_9.src.rpm

SHA-256: e83ab04013b26e38b519da1e755d68c5736a2ef0a1629e0a57a0b9ee61d91808

x86_64

thunderbird-102.3.0-4.el7_9.x86_64.rpm

SHA-256: c9b77cb39dcc78f7fb73824ab4d553ba5b3910f0bc6baa4f4f53d331656d5ab0

thunderbird-debuginfo-102.3.0-4.el7_9.x86_64.rpm

SHA-256: 49a6290192a2bef10894e4e27f8bc37d5558d53f7831b09fb95c56e39861cb52

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 7

SRPM

thunderbird-102.3.0-4.el7_9.src.rpm

SHA-256: e83ab04013b26e38b519da1e755d68c5736a2ef0a1629e0a57a0b9ee61d91808

x86_64

thunderbird-102.3.0-4.el7_9.x86_64.rpm

SHA-256: c9b77cb39dcc78f7fb73824ab4d553ba5b3910f0bc6baa4f4f53d331656d5ab0

thunderbird-debuginfo-102.3.0-4.el7_9.x86_64.rpm

SHA-256: 49a6290192a2bef10894e4e27f8bc37d5558d53f7831b09fb95c56e39861cb52

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 7

SRPM

thunderbird-102.3.0-4.el7_9.src.rpm

SHA-256: e83ab04013b26e38b519da1e755d68c5736a2ef0a1629e0a57a0b9ee61d91808

ppc64le

thunderbird-102.3.0-4.el7_9.ppc64le.rpm

SHA-256: 4aab796be629d5fe72772359670e5644e5ef233c2b3318f99e378d830a0e2ced

thunderbird-debuginfo-102.3.0-4.el7_9.ppc64le.rpm

SHA-256: ffcfc8798270ed05d78c1e157a9b0f8f3d517c68271b0944f68e2b11efbcfb9c

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